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We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

Rudyard Kipling
Lying, Islands, Sea
Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.44, e-artnow

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

Rudyard Kipling
Lying, Eye, Garden
History of England (1911) "The Glory of the Garden"

There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.

Rudyard Kipling
Lying, Knowledge, Jewels

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

Rudyard Kipling
Tombstone, Lying, Fighting
The Naulahka (1892) ch. 5

Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.

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Dog, Lying, Pups
Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Complete Poetry of Rudyard Kipling: Complete 570+ Poems in One Volume: Songs from Novels and Stories, The Seven Seas Collection, Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, An Almanac of Twelve Sports, The Five Nations, The Years Between…”, p.596, e-artnow

When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!

Rudyard Kipling
Lying, Two, Needs
"When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted" l. 1 (1892)

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

Rudyard Kipling
Lying, Boys, Desire
Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Ghost Stories”, p.88, Mondial

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

Rudyard Kipling
Love, Lying, Law
Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.760, Wordsworth Editions

No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!

Rudyard Kipling
Wise, Strong, Lying
Rudyard Kipling, M.M. Kaye (2002). “Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Verse”, Kyle Cathie Limited

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

Rudyard Kipling
Wise, Hate, Lying
Rewards and Fairies (1910) "If - "

Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.

Rudyard Kipling
Horse, Nice, Lying
Rudyard Kipling (2017). “The Cat that Walked by Himself (English French Edition illustrated): Le Chat qui s’en va tout seul (Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.3, Clap Publishing, LLC.

But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.

Rudyard Kipling
Money, Lying, Paid
Rudyard Kipling (2014). “Kipling and the Sea: Voyages and Discoveries from North Atlantic to South Pacific”, p.26, I.B.Tauris

The beasts are very wise, Their mouths are clean of lies, They talk one to the other, Bullock to bullock brothers Resting after their labors, Each in stall with his neighbors, But man with goad and whip, Breaks up their fellowship, Shouts in their silky ears Filling their soul with fears. When he has plowed the land, He says: "they understand." But the beasts in stall together, Freed from the yoke and tether, Say as the torn flank smoke: "Nay, 'twas the whip that spoke."

Rudyard Kipling
Wise, Brother, Lying
Rudyard Kipling (1989). “Complete verse”, Anchor Books

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